1st Edition

Digital Supply Chains Key Facilitator to Industry 4.0 and New Business Models, Leveraging S/4 HANA and Beyond

By Götz G. Wehberg Copyright 2021
220 Pages
by Routledge

220 Pages
by Routledge

This book provides a practical guide to digital supply chain modelling, demonstrating an agile approach to how such models can be applied to any manufacturing company to build competitive advantage, facilitate new business models and drive towards Industry 4.0. The agile approach of the book provides an attractive alternative to the conventional country-by-country deployment of S/4 HANA and other... Read more
Part 1: Why supply chain complexity matters

1 The complexity issue

2 Need for a framework

Part 2: Where we come from

1 Existing approaches

2 Resilient understanding

3 Frame of reference: digital twin of supply chains

Part 3: What a digital supply chain is

1 Cultural aspects

2 Resilient understanding

3 Supply chain planning

4 Relevance of the digital twin of a product

5 Coordination along the chain

Part 4: How to develop digital supply chains

1 Typical paths of supply chain evolution

2 Key principles of supply chain evolution 

3 Next steps for digital supply chain management

Part 5: Over and beyond digital supply chains

The ten biggest errors as to digital supply chains

Biography

Götz G. Wehberg is an Executive Vice President and global sector leader at Capgemini. Wehberg is an expert in supply chain management. He has worked on supply chain topics in many industries, including automotive, process industries, life science and manufacturing. Wehberg works for major clients such as BMW, BASF, Bayer, Siemens and Volkswagen, among others. Besides supply chain management, he is an expert in M&A and digitalization. Today, he works predominantly in Europe. He has worked for a number of years in the Americas as well as the Middle East.